My boyfriend is addicted to Aion

[Joe's Crab Shack]

Nothing really happened, he just said that he got a girl friend and doesn't have time for tf2 anymore.

Until she dumps him

[Sastora]

Well thats not very supportive. I hope they have a good relationship, although PJ can be a bully he deserves someone special.

[PhrozenFlame]

Nothing really happened, he just said that he got a girl friend and doesn't have time for tf2 anymore.

He also joined the military (or was called back to service can't remember).

[GrimGriz]

Rent the movie second skin the re-examine your situation.

[AgeNt_]

completely ignore him. time how long it takes him to realize that your ignoring him and break the news to him when he finds out. then make him feel like an ass.

[Joe's Crab Shack]

"Either you remove that game from your computer, or i remove your dick from your body"

[captainAngry]

I got bored with Aion after about a month and a half but there were definitely times where I would play for 12+ hours at a time.

The only time when my GF got really upset with my video game playing was when I was playing a game called Travian. It is an online RTS game which means that the game would progress weather you were paying attention and logged in or not. I was the leader of a guild on there as well.

In the game you raise armys and can completely wipe out someones villages that they spent MONTHS building up in a single wave of attacks. By the end of it I would have to wake up at all hours of the night so I could send wheat (what the armys eat) from one of my villages to the other so they didn't starve.

Anyway, it was a rough couple months for me and my fiance. The problem I ran into is that since I was the leader of 60+ people if I quit our group would dissolve. I spent months building relationships with other groups and we were geared up to win the server by the time the game ended. I had taken a fun game that could have been a way to blow off steam and made it into a responsibility and got stuck. This is kind of a reoccurring theme with video games for me but I have learned a lot.

I wouldn't be too terribly worried about it. Give him a little time to blow off some steam. He will probably get bored soon since that game gets to be a huge grind after about lvl 28. You could also try Aion. Who knows, maybe you'll like it and you could turn it into something you could do together. MMOs are always better with a partner to level with.

[Hanzo_blade]

Indeed. He seemed to have stopped playing it for a while... few days without running it. Now I'm just confused why the sudden halt in playing it. Just in one day, an addiction can be gone?!

[captainAngry]

I don't know if you have played an MMO before but it's just like any other RPG. At first you level really quickly. 10 levels in a few hours. Then it gets harder and harder to level and it starts to take a week of playing to gain a level.

At some point you start killing the same monsters over and over again for hours just to gain a little experience and it gets super boring. I just up and deleted my count at some point because I didn't want to log in and grind for hours anymore.

[Hanzo_blade]

yeah I've played guild wars. Tiz why MMO's aren't really appealing for me. Killing monsters over and over with little reward is boring...
*Click* -5 damage- w00t! *click* TEN damage! Im gettin somewhere. I think...

[Duckwalk]

yeah captain i played tribal wars for a few months. same idea as travian in the sense that the game continues to do shit even when ur not there. i found that, in the end, the game was more addictive than fun.

i would have to wake up at all hours of the night and stop doing things just to go send attacks and move troops around 1 or 2 of my 250 cities. it got to the point where i had to set alarms on my phone to go send attacks to a certain person because i read their profile and found out they live in butt fucking egypt and when it was like 7pm here i knew i could land attacks seeing as it was like 2am there and the person was likely asleep. same went for defending. id have to stay up till 3am defending attacks from cock bags on the west coast.

problem was that i refused to pay and buy a premium account so it finally got to the point where i would have to sit on the computer for 3 hours just to make sure all my towns were doing sumthing. so i quit and my life has been all the better.

Hanzo, i think ur best bet, if ur trying to get him away from the computer and do more stuff with him, is to just plan out a date, then tell him about it, then do it. i personally feel there are a lot of things out there that are worse to be addicted to besides fruity little mmos with fairys n shit. i.e. meth.

[Hanzo_blade]

Yes Duck you make a good point. Other things to worry about. Just at the time lot of other stuff going on that wasn't too pleasing too. The fact he has a completely different sleep schedule than me (bed at 9 or 10 AM waking up at 7 or 8 PM...) + Constant Aion was enough to make me rage at the time. Sleep thing is still a bugging issue, but less video games is making it a little easier to try and find time with each other.

[Duckwalk]

well i figure the best thing you can do is let him know how u feel without sounding whiny or berating him or his game. if hes not a turd he will make the right decision.

[thedoghouse]

yeah I've played guild wars. Tiz why MMO's aren't really appealing for me. Killing monsters over and over with little reward is boring...
*Click* -5 damage- w00t! *click* TEN damage! Im gettin somewhere. I think...

no, you forgot the part where the other guy hits you once, then you run, then he kills you

and I know when I first get it a game (especially single-player games) I play it like crazy until I beat it or get stuck then never touch it again

[xxSushixx]

yeah I've played guild wars. Tiz why MMO's aren't really appealing for me. Killing monsters over and over with little reward is boring...
*Click* -5 damage- w00t! *click* TEN damage! Im gettin somewhere. I think...

no, you forgot the part where the other guy hits you once, then you run, then he kills you

and I know when I first get it a game (especially single-player games) I play it like crazy until I beat it or get stuck then never touch it again

Isn't this the normal way to play video games???

[VillageSavant]

my suggestion is to get away for the night.. some times it feels like same old same old, I dont know if Bed and Breakfast's is your thing. But something romantic like that may clear his head about whats important in life.

[thedoghouse]

my suggestion is to get away for the night.. some times it feels like same old same old, I dont know if Bed and Breakfast's is your thing. But something romantic like that may clear his head about whats important in life.

if that doesn't work hide his disc or hard drive until he listens to you